[ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

[Adam Bagnall]

The light stays on using my USB drive under Ubuntu, but goes off under 
windows so it's not just you with this behaviour. Even with the light 
staying on I think it would be good for a popup message saying the 
device is safe to remove as you get in windows. It should be fairly 
simple to implement using zenity.

Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Chris,
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>> When you right click on a removable device in Dapper and tell it to
>> unmount/eject, you get another progress window that shows the actual
>> writing (and if you have a removable device with an LED on it that
>> shows accesses, you'll notice that this is when it does most of its
>> blinking).
>>     
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> That reminds me.  I've a 1 GiB flash USB drive.  It has a bright LED
> that blinks off on accesses.  On `pumount /media/ralphs-usb' it flushes
> some writes, blinking the light, and unmounts yet the light then stays
> on.
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> However, on friends' machines running MS Windows on doing the `safely
> remove ...' option (whatever it is) the light goes off and stays off.
>
> I think that's good.  It helps confirm it's ready to pull out.  Do
> others experience this difference?
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> Cheers,
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> Ralph.
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